The Paperless Classroom: Out Sick!

I've received a bunch of emails lately from teachers asking me to post what a normal day's work is like in a paperless classroom. Well, yesterday I was home from school with a sick kid; so, I had to submit my plans to the assistant principal to give to my sub.

Here are the plans. I think they give a sense of what goes on on a totally ordinary day in a paperless classroom when the teacher is out and a sub is in. Make of it what you will.

Latin I - Vocab Quiz: please create 10 word vocab quizzes for one another. Email the quiz to a partner in class, post answers on your blog, and check as blog comments. Honor code applies! (Must have correct time-stamp). Then, please work on your two blog posts for the week: one on a biography of Julius Caesar (with pictures and sources) and the other on Emperor Augustus (with pictures and sources). Due next class.

Latin II - Please be sure that your 'In Verrem' test is posted. For today's class -- Vocab Quiz: please create 10 word vocab quizzes for one another. Email the quiz to a partner in class, post answers on your blog, and check as blog comments. Honor code applies! (Must have correct time-stamp). Then, please work on your two blog posts for the week (to get background info for the Verres Oration): one on a history of Sicily from Bronze Age through the Roman Period and one on the influence of Cicero on later writers and scholars in the Middle Ages. Due Next Class.

Latin III - Thanks for all of your hard work on Catullus 37; please be sure that your Cat 37 test is posted. (Must have correct time-stamp). Now please translate poem 39. You may work in pairs. Be sure to highlight and parse at least five verbs. Save in a Google Doc. Due Next Class.

AP Latin - Please be sure that your Subordination Test is posted. (Must have correct time-stamp). Then go to Pixton.com. Create a 'comic-book' record of the major scenes in Books 4. Please begin by creating characters for Aeneas, Dido, and Anna as well as a character for yourself. If you have time, get started translating the Bk 4 -- through line 197 due Fri on your blog; note that all text in your comics will have to be in the original Latin. Also, please keep up with the translation schedule; all translations so far this quarter must be posted on your blog by Friday for Mid-Quarter credit. Check my blog for schedule.

AP Art History - Please be sure that your architecture test is posted. (Must have correct time-stamp). Classwork: Please curate a small exhibition on your blog of the work of the Realists: Corot and Courbet; compare / contrast their landscapes to the earlier landscape painting from 16th and 17th century Netherlands / Flanders. See Met Online Timeline for ideas. Please source each pic via hyperlink.